Book Suggestions

[chasingtides]

I will be spending an absurd amount of time this coming weekend in transit. My iPod is still MIA. (Don't even ask. It's not worth it. I'm just going to be Nova Scotian this weekend.)

However, I want to get a travel book, for the times when I'm not driving or writing my Big Bangs. This is a book suggestion post. Tell me what book I should read this weekend.

Comments

[meuniere.livejournal.com]

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (Less Than Zero & other books of his are also pretty good.) or Devil In The White City by Eric Larson would be my initial suggestions, but Watership Down, SOLD (it's about prostitutes), and Saint Iggy are also amazing.

[breakinporcelan.livejournal.com]

"Fool on the Hill" by Matt Ruff. It's one of the best fantasy books I've ever read: http://home.att.net/~storytellers/foolhill.html

[sgrio.livejournal.com]

Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver.

[chasingtides.livejournal.com]

*does a flail at you*

I realised I can't bake your gift. Which means it has to air dry. Which is making me flail, but it is actually drying.

[sgrio.livejournal.com]

*flails back at you* YAY!!!!

[chasingtides.livejournal.com]

So, er, it's taking a bit of extra time since I don't know that the backing should be heat set. But, uh, pretty thing soonlike?

[sgrio.livejournal.com]

It sounds very exciting! \o/

[chasingtides.livejournal.com]

Also, if you felt like PMing me your address so I can be super sure that this actually gets to you, it'd make me feel better when I actually send it.

[sgrio.livejournal.com]

Lol, will do. It strikes me suddenly that not only did they cast an ex-addict as Sherlock Holmes, but they also cast a real lad-about-town as Watson. Genius!

[sarari.livejournal.com]

I'm only about half way through it but I'm fascinated with Jeff VanderMeer's City of Saints and Madmen. If you've already read that then some other titles that come to mind are Charles de Lint's Uncle Dobbin's Parrot Fair, Richard Taylor's House Inside the Waves: Domesticity, Art and Surfing Life, Neil Gaiman's Smoke and Mirrors, and William Gibson and Bruce Sterling's The Difference Engine.

[klaudie.livejournal.com]

I second that. Completely awesome.

[darkelegies.livejournal.com]

I'm a big Oliver Sacks fan. Also, Michael Cunningham (except for specimen days) and Nick Hornby. Franny and Zooey (I hadn't read it until last year. I don't take lit anymore.) The Remains of the Day. Saturday. For sci-fi, Octavia Butler's the Parable of the Talents is really good. I'd imagine that the Parable of the Sower is too. The Center Cannot Hold, if you're into mental illness memoirs. On the more academic side, Exile and Pride.

[onthetide.livejournal.com]

Frankenstein! I just read it and found it aborbing, well-written, and completely different from any movie adaptations I've seen.

[siyahsaclikiz.livejournal.com]

I find The Princess Bride to be a fabulous travel book. It always comes with me on my carry-on, alongside whichever other book I may be reading at the time. Once I'm done with the new book, onto The Princess Bride!

I've been on a Kurt Vonnegut kick lately, and Breakfast of Champions is funny and a good read if Vonnegut is your cup of tea. Satirical, dark-ish humour, and a lot of Vonnegut going "this is why our society is fucked up" meta moments.